About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

June 30 is the 181st (182nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 184 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Media "What journalism is really about; it's to monitor power and the centers of power." — Amira Hass

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Obtuseness "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind." — William Westmoreland, U.S. Army general on the war in Vietnam

Thought for the day: "The light of a hundred stars doesn't equal the light of the moon."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

Jumbled Galaxy Centaurus A

Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler and Stephane GuisardClick picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

EVENTS

● 296 - St. Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.

● 1097 - The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum.

● 1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland

● 1422 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.

● 1607 - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published

● 1629 - The settlers of Salem, Mass. appointed Samuel Skelton as their pastor, by ballot. Their church covenant, afterward composed by Skelton, established Salem as the first non-separating congregational Puritan Church in New England.

● 1651 - The Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.

● 1688 - The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, beginning the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.

● 1741 - Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms

● 1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Domstadtl.

● 1780 - Benjamin Randall organized a fellowship of churches known as Free Will Baptists in New Hampshire. It became one of the early branches of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, which was formed in 1935.

● 1908 - An explosion in Siberia, which knocked down trees in a 40-mile radius and struck people unconscious some 40 miles away. It was believed by some scientists to be caused by a falling fragment from a meteorite. This becomes known as the Tunguska Event.

● 1909 - In Rome, the Catholic Pontifical Biblical Commission issued a decree interpreting the first 11 chapters of Genesis as history, not myth.

● 1936 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie pleads before League of Nations for help against Italian fascist invasion of his country. The League's inability to stop unprovoked invasions by fascist governments led to its downfall, a fate the modern United Nations is acutely aware of.

● 1951 - On orders from Washington, General Matthew Ridgeway broadcasts that the United Nations was willing to discuss an armistice with North Korea.

● 1952 - Congress passes McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, to screen out "subversive" aliens and deport them, even if they have become U.S. citizens. Follows up on the McCarran Act (Internal Security Act of 1950)--one of the more bucolic provisions being its authorization of concentration camps "for emergency situations." McCarran-Walter strengthened provisions allowing exclusion of immigrants on grounds of insanity, disease, pauperism, crime record or political activity, and made exclusion of anarchists and communists easier. It attacked people merely on account of speech or association, even if there is no evidence they might act violently or illegally. Harry Truman noted "The idea behind this discriminatory policy is, to put it baldly, that Americans with English or Irish names were better citizens than Americans with Italian, Greek, or Polish names..." -- while in fact it was motivated more toward excluding non-whites in this aspect.

● 1953 - The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250.

● 1954 - Three continents see eclipse of sun; Millions of people turn to look at the darkening skies as a total eclipse of the sun spreads from America through Europe and on to Asia.

● 1964 - The last of U.N. troops left Congo after a four-year effort to bring stability to the country.

● 1965 - First U.S. military ground actions begin in Vietnam.

● 1966 - U.S. Polaris submarine base opens, Faslane, Scotland.

● 1967 - Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut

● 1968 - Petition for recognition of conscientious objection as a basic human right is presented to United Nations Human Rights Commission.

● 1969 - Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra; Four million people face starvation when the Nigerian government bans night flights of food by the Red Cross.

● 1969 - Seattle City Council approves a plan to purchase Kiker Island, off Deception Pass (Whidbey Island), as a site for a future nuclear power plant.

● 1969 - Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco

● 1969 - Vigilantes cut down trees in Kew Gardens in Queens, New York City. The park is a gathering place for area gays. About a month previous, a group of men from nearby apartment buildings started going into the park and ordering gay men to leave. Vigilante organizer Myles Tashman said, (quote) "Admittedly it was against the law but we had police consent." On this evening, the vigilantes just raze the park. A local resident twice called the police after seeing them at work with a power saw. Arriving almost an hour later, the officers chat with the treecutters and then leave. The Mattachine Society and other gay clubs start a fund, "Trees for Queens," to replace the foliage.

● 1970 - An Army depot on Kimber Road, London, England firebombed.

● 1970 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze

● 1971 - Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.

● 1971 - The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. The three cosmonauts were found dead inside when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.

● 1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the New York Times to continue publishing the Pentagon Papers.

● 1972 - 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985

● 1973 - In Korea, the Far Eastern Broadcasting Co. began transmitting the Gospel from HLAZ, its first radio station in this country. FBEC is active today through radio missions outreach, and focuses its work among the islands of Eastern Asia and the Pacific.

● 1973 - Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse

● 1974 - Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr., and a church deacon were slain by a crazed gunman in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her son, the assassinated civil rights leader, once preached.

● 1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages were freed from a hijacked TWA jetliner in Beirut after being held for 17 days.

● 1986 - In Bowers v. Hardwick, Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4) - Sodomy, one to 20 years. Upheld as to homosexuals on the grounds that there is no fundamental federal constitutional right to "engage in sodomy." Still on the books in half of the states, most laws are applied against homosexuals in order to further anti-gay discrimination. State-by-state laws have created a patchwork of penalties which range from a $50 fine in Arizona to life in prison in Idaho.

● 1987 - ACT UP demonstration at Federal Plaza in New York city.

● 1988 - Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason

● 1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Catholic church.

● 1998 - In Paris, France, a group of 100 people manages to enter the buildings of the Constitutional Council. One of them seizes an original specimen of the constitution, tears it, declaring - "The dictatorship of capitalism is abolished. The workers declare anarchist-communism."

● 1998 - Officials confirmed that the remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.

● 1998 - Some 20,000 New York City construction workers rally to protest the city's use of a nonunion contractor.

● 2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the E-Signature bill to give the same legal validity to an electronic signature as a signature in pen and ink.

● 2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)

● 2006 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:● First Martyrs of Rome● First Martyrs of the See of Rome.● Martyrs of Rome● St. Adilia van Orp (died 670)● St. Adolf (died 1224)● St. Airick● St. Basilides● St. Bertrand● St. Clotsindis● St. Emiliana● St. Erentrudis● St. Eurgain● St. Lucina● St. Marcian● St. Martial● St. Martialis● St. Ostianus● St. Paul● St. Theobald● St. Vincent Yen● Bl. Arnold Cornibout● Bl. Philip Powell● Bl. Raymond Lull

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 17 (Civil Date: June 30)● Martyrs Manuel, Sabel, and Ismael of Persia.● Hieromartyr Philoneides, Bishop of Kurion in Cyprus.● Saints Joseph and Pior, disciples of St. Anthony the Great.● The Alfanov brothers (see May 4).● St. Ananias the Iconographer of Novgorod.

● Greek Calendar:● lM Isaurus, and with him Basil, Innocent, Felix, Hermes and Peregrinus of Athens.

● Guatemala : Revolution Day (1871)

● Lybia : Troop Withdrawl Day

● Mongolia : Constitution Day

● Rwanda & Burundi : Independence Day (1962)

● Surinam : Lebaran, official holiday

● Zaire : Independence Day (1960)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Iowa : Independence Sunday (1776) - ( Sunday )

Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Friday, June 29, 2007

June 29 is the 180th (181st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Meaning "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands." — Jesse Helms, former Republican U.S. senator

Thought for the day: "The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1757 - Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Whatever we may undertake with a sincere desire to promote His glory, we may comfortably pursue. Nothing is trivial that is done for Him.'

● 1776 - The Virginia state constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.

● 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.

● 1804 - Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.

● 1810 - In Bradford, Massachusetts, the first U.S. missionary society was organized: the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

● 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.

● 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.

● 1875 - The first 'holiness' conference opened at Keswick, England. Keswick conferences stress a non- charismatic, 'crisis' form of sanctification, in contrast to the older traditional view of Christian sanctification as being a lifelong 'process.'

● 1903 - The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.

● 1905 - Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over the country. Many ships were looted.

● 1908 - Birth of Cyrus H. Gordon, American Jewish archaeological scholar. Having taught Assyriology and Egyptology at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, his technical writings include the 'Ugaritic Handbook' (1947).

● 1913 - Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War

● 1914 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani

● 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

● 1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for first time.

● 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

● 1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.

● 1917 - W.E.B. DuBois leads silent march by blacks against lynching, New York City.

● 1922 - France grants 1 square km at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."

● 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission, Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

● 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

● 2001 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was elected to a second term.

● 2001 - Diana fountain given go-ahead; The government announces a memorial in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, is to be built in London's Hyde Park.

● 2002 - President George W. Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health. {This is despite finding his head firmly lodged inside his colon.}

● 2002 - Naval clashes between North Korea and South Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

● 2003 - Thirteen are killed in a porch collapse in Chicago.

● 2003 - Actress Katharine Hepburn died at age 96.

● 2006- The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Cassius● St. Cocha● St. Hemma● St. Mary● Sts. Peter and Paul, i.e. the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the diamond workers● Sts. Salome & Judith

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 16 (Civil Date: June 29)● St. Tychon, Bishop of Amathus in Cyprus.● St. Tikhon (Tychon) of Luchlv.● St. Tikhon of Kaluga or Medin.● St. Tikhon of Krestogorsk (Vologda).● Martyrs Tigirius and Eutropius of Constantinople.● St. Mark the Just of Apollonias, nephew of Apostle Barnabas.● New-Martyr Hermogenes (Germogen), Bishop of Tobolsk (1918).

● Greek Calendar:● Five Martyrs of Nicomedia.● Forty Martyrs of Rome.● Repose of Archimandrite Moses, founder of Optina Skete (1862) and of Elder Gerasimus of St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery (1898).

● Anglican and Lutheran: Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul, apostles

● Seychelles - Independence Day.

● The Netherlands - Veterans Day.

● Malta - l-Imnarja

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Iowa : Independence Sunday (1776) - ( Sunday )

Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

June 28 is the 179th (180th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining in the year on this date.

This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are different perfect numbers.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On McCarthyism "McCarthyism: 1. The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence. 2. The use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition." — American Heritage Dictionary

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "We found the weapons of mass destruction." — George W. Bush, referring to two tractor-trailers found in Iraq that had no trace of chemical or biological agents

Thought for the day: "The only rose without thorns is friendship."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1389 - Ottoman and Serbian armies fight the bloody battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe.

● 1491 - England's King Henry VIII was born in Greenwich.

● 1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

● 1577 - Birth of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter. His most famous canvasses include 'Descent from the Cross' and 'Erection of the Cross.'

● 1635 - French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean

● 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.

● 1675 - Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes.

● 1709 - The Russians defeated the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava.

● 1712 - Birth of French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau.

● 1763 - Earthquake in Komarom, Hungary

● 1770 - Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia

● 1776 - American Colonists repulsed a British sea attack on Charleston, SC.

● 1776 - Thomas Hinkey was hanged for mutiny, sedition, and treachery for plotting to kidnap George Washington. Hinkey was one of his bodyguards.

● 1778 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.

● 1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.

● 1820 - Tomato is proven nonpoisonous {I'm so glad, I was thinking about trying one.}

● 1836 - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, died in Montpelier, Va., at age 85.

● 1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.

● 1851 - Birth of Eliza E. Hewitt, American Presbyterian church worker and devotional author. Four of her hymns still endure: 'Will There Be Any Stars?', 'More About Jesus I Would Know,' 'When We All Get to Heaven' and 'Sunshine in the Soul.'

● 1914 - Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist, Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1

● 1914 - Birth of Lester Roloff, American evangelist. In his later years he founded the 'City of Refuge,' a work specializing in reforming children who came from broken homes.

● 1918 - 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands

● 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side exactly five years after it began. The treaty also established the League of Nations.

● 1921 - A coal strike in Great Britain was settled after three months.

● 1962 - The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was formed with the merger of four Lutheran synods: the United Lutheran Church in America, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church.

● 1964 - Malcolm X founded the Organization for Afro American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.

● 1976 - Death sentence for mercenaries; Three Britons and an American are sentenced to death by firing squad for their roles during the Angolan civil war.

● 1976 - The first women entered the U.S. Air Force Academy.

● 1977 - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers

● 1978 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke. Bakke, a white man, argued he had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

● 1978 - UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill

● 1980 - NYC transit fare rises from 50¢ to 60¢

● 1982 - Prince Upchuck & Lady Di name their baby "William"

● 1983 - NASA launches Galaxy-A

● 1983 - The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.

● 1988 - The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, killing five.

● 1989 - Slobodan Milošević's delivers the Kosovo Polje speech

● 1989 - U.S. Congress reinstates Coquille Indians of Oregon.

● 1991 - Thatcher to retire from Commons; Margaret Thatcher is to give up her seat in the House of Commons at the general election.

● 1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.

● 1994 - Department of Energy discloses that hundreds of U.S. citizens were unwittingly used for radiation experiments during the Cold War.

● 1995 - Webster Hubbell, the former No. 3 official at the Justice Department, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.

● 1995 - State police in Guerrero, Mexico, ambush members of the Southern Sierra Peasant Organization (OCSS) near Aguas Blancas, Guerrero, and killed 17 of them.

● 1996 - The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.

● 1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.

● 1998 - Poland, due to shortage of funds, is allowed to lease, U.S. aircraft to bring military force up to NATO standards.

● 2000 - Six-year-old Elián González returned to Cuba from the U.S. with his father. The child had been the center of an international custody dispute.

● 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared that a Nebraska law that outlawed "partial birth abortions" was unconstitutional. About 30 U.S. states had similar laws at the time of the ruling.

● 2001 - Slobodan Milosevic was taken into custody and was handed over to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. The indictment charged Milosevic and four other senior officials, with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war in Kosovo.

● 2001 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit set aside an order that would break up Microsoft for antitrust violations. However, the judges did agree that the company was in violation of antitrust laws.

● 2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. {Yeah and if believe this crap I have some ski resort land for sale in Phoenix.}

● 2004 - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.

● 2004- The U.S. resumed diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.

● 2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.

● 2005 - Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.

● 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Almus● St. Argymirus● St. Austell● St. Benignus● St. Crummine● St. Egilo● St. Heimrad● St. Irenaeus of Lyon, bishop and martyr● St. John Southworth● St. Marcella● St. Paul I, Pope (died 767)● St. Plutarch● St. Theodichildis● St. Vincenza Gerosa

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 15 (Civil Date: June 28)● Prophet Amos.● St. Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow.● Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania.● Martyr Dulas of Cilicia.● St. Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium.● St. Dulas the Passion-bearer of Egypt.● St. Lazarus, prince of Serbia.● Translation of the Relics of St. Theodore the Sykeote.● St. Orsiesius of Tabenna, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.● Blessed Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.● Saints Gregory and Cassian, abbots of Avnezhk (Vologda).● St. Michael, first Metropolitan of Kiev.● St. Symeon, Archbishop of Novgorod.● St. Ephraim, Patriarch of Serbia.● Martyr Leonis (Leonida) of Syria.● St. Abraham, abbot of Auvergne (Gaul).

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.